Articles on Animation &Fleischer 13 Mar 2007 07:00 am
I.Klein’s Charles Bowers – part 2
– So when we last left I. Klein yesterday, he was telling us about Charles Bowers. Bowers was a silent film animation pioneer and entrepeneur. He’s done enough that I think he deserves a little more attention by historians, but there isn’t much interest in and information about the silent film animators. Other than Winsor McCay, not too many early pioneers have been the focus of attention. Even someone as important as J.R. Bray remains a silent shadow in the corner of animation history overshadowed by the likes of Disney and the Fleischers.
As a matter of fact, other than specific biographies (such as a book I have on Lotte Reineger or John Canemaker‘s books on McCay and Otto Messmer) I can only think of two books which focus on silent film animation. There’s the excellent book, Before Mickey by Donald Crafton, and there’s Walt In Wonderland by Russell Merritt and J. B. Kaufman. Both are must-haves for animation lovers.
Here then is the continuation of I.Klein’s article for Cartoonist Profiles’ June 1975 issue:
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